Using your time wisely on your wedding day. :)

I always tell couples that it is their wedding day, so of course, whatever they want goes, but I HIGHLY recommend the bride and groom see each other before their ceremony. There are just too many pros to seeing each other before hand and I wanted to share with you yet another reason why this is a good idea.

On Saturday I shot Tiffani & Eric's wedding reception (they eloped earlier this year to Vegas!) at Shoreline Grill. It was lovely and the pictures are fantastic, but by far the best pictures from the day are the ones from before anything got started and Tiffani had me come early to take some portraits of just she and Eric. She gave me 1 hour. That is absolutely all it takes to get the best pictures you will ever have of yourselves in your WHOLE life! Here's a few of my many favorites from that hour we had together.

PS - If you'd like to talk about the timeline for your wedding day and how we can get some fabulous portraits of you guys together, all of you guys know you can email or call me! :)

PPS- Thanks to my buddy Michael Hooks (Hooked on Photography) for telling Tiffani and Eric about me!

Back from Partnercon

This week I was in Los Angeles for Pictage's Partner Conference. Pictage is my new order fulfillment company and so far, I love them! The conference was absolutely amazing - I learned SO much . . . it is so hard to digest it all, but I am thankful to have had this opportunity and I look forward to applying some new ideas to my business model!

Not only was this conference fun from a learning perspective, but the social aspect of it was also such a blast! I roomed with the fabulous Rachel Priddy from Arizona and she was the best roomie ever! She needed a headshot, so I took some portraits of her and what do you know, I had my picture taken, too! :) This is actually the first time for me to have professional pics taken of myself and I was so lucky to be in her hands!

Me!




I also got to hang out with my new bffs, Jeff & Erin Youngren from San Diego and we had a blast! These two are the coolest people in the world and they also happen to be amazingly talented. They are a husband-and-wife team just like Stan and I and their work totally inspires me all the time! Jeff and I have exchanged emails and ecouragments for a long time, so it was so great to finally meet him in person. He really is even cooler than I thought he would be! Here's a picture of us being silly in the KISS photo booth. We are proud to claim the FIRST "photo-booth-foot-high-five" to ever happen! :)

Back in Action and ON FOX 7 NEWS Monday AM!!!

Hey guys!

I am BACK in town and I have to say that I really am better than ever.......I learned SOOOO much and I'll tell you all about it soon, but just wanted to write a quick post to say, please watch me on Fox 7 News on Monday morning at 8:53 am - I will be LIVE, in the studio for an interview about trashing the dress - wish me luck!

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Do you miss it?

Much in line with the old "Does a tree falling in a forest make a sound if nobody is there to hear it?" vein, I want to know: do you miss me when I don't blog? :) I miss you. I really like blogging, so it's so weird not to!

I will be sure to give all my updates on my trips soonafter I get back. :) Thanks for hanging in there! Hope your week is going well! :)

Out of the Office

Hi!

Just wanted to let you guys know that we will be out of the office from Friday, Sept 7th until Friday, Sept 14th. We will have limited access to email and phone, but if you need something, please send us an email and we will get back to you as soon as we can!

We're off to Houston to celebrate birthdays with the family and then next week I will be in Los Angeles at a photography conference - so fun! :)

Blessings,
Stacy

Alisa & John : Engaged!

Alisa and John are so cute . . . when I told them that their pictures would be on the blog they were like "blog??" :) This makes me laugh because I have some couples that follow my blog daily and then some that don't even know it exists and I think that's so funny! Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed hanging out with these two and we got some great pictures of them. I'm looking forward to shooting their wedding in October. :)



















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My friends are so great!

Yesterday my dear friends Krissy and Cortney took me out to a Birthday happy hour (my b-day is this Saturday!) and it was so fun! We got 99 cent margaritas and a huge scoop of ice cream on a sopapilla - what more could you want? THANK YOU Corny and Kissy - I LOVE yall! Cortney also got me the coolest presents - Kissy forgot my present. :) Shame on her.

Here's Cortney's camera phone pics from last night:

Kiss and me





Kissy


Stacy under the influence of extreme exhaustion and lots of sugar! :)


Corny is a cutie


Then I got together with many of central Texas's finest photographers who also happen to be some of my favorite new friends. We went to San Marcos and had a great dinner along the river. My food was actually terrible and I had to send it back (I NEVER do that!) so I won't mention the name of the restaurant, but let's just say it was trout that tasted like feet. Woops.

Here are the fun photographers I hung out with last night: Amy DeYoung, Courtney Sprague, Jennifer Nichols, Jennifer Wilson (Silver Plate Photography), Michael Hooks (Hooked on Photography), Kellie & Traci (Anne Marie Photography), and the awesomely cool Eric Von. Sarah from Roxy and Kai was sick and couldn't make it :( and Lisa Woods is in the dawg house cause she didn't show and Tyler Schmitt is in the even bigger dog house because he made Cross mad. :)

Love
Stacy

Clayton & Cynthia's Wedding!

Clayton and Cynthia had a lovely Labor Day wedding and Stan and I were honored to be a part of it! These two are ministers and they are both very dearly loved in their church community. They invited their entire congregation to the wedding, so it was HUGE and so awesome! They had not one but two receptions with 4 DIFFERENT cakes!!! :) Yes, this is heaven to me folks! I made myself kiiiinda sick by the end of the night, but all-in-all, it was a wonderful time! :) Here's just a few of our many favorites from the day:

Mark your calendars - Fox 7 Morning News Interview!!!!!!!!!

Hey guys!

Okay, as you read a few days ago, I have an awesome opportunity coming up and I would LOVE it if you could watch me on the news for my interview about Trashing the Dress. The date is set: Monday, September 17th and I will be on-air at 8:53am (they are hard core with times in the news business). I will remind you again, but go ahead and set the DVR, please! :)

I am so excited!

Eric & Nikki's Wedding!

Last night Stan and I went down to Vintage Villas to take pictures of Eric and Nikki's beautiful wedding. The weather was great until about 10 minutes before the outdoor ceremony was scheduled to begin, then all heck broke loose and it started pouring. Miraculously, it stopped raining right when the ceremony was to begin, so they decided to move forward with the wedding outside. It was a great decision because it was absolutely gorgeous and much cooler than it had been before the rain. The threatening storm clouds in the distance made for an awesome, heavenly backdrop as Nikki and Eric became husband and wife.

Special thanks to Bethany and her girls from 36th Street Events, who did a fabulous job coordinating this wedding and to Lauren at Vintage Villas, who is just so sweet and organized. This was the first time that Stan and I had ever shot at Vintage Villas and it was a wonderful experience!

Here are a few of our favorites from last night:





The boys praying before the ceremony






Stan got this amazing shot during the ceremony!






Eric's and his two girls + Nikki and her twin boys = one beautiful family!


I loved all the color that was around the place . . . from the gorgeous flowers to the dark blue sky






Nikki and her father's dance was so beautiful and so emotional




Thank you SO much, Eric and Nikki, for letting Stan and I be a part of your big day - we loved being there with you!